The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Vacuum 5 Direction for snowbirds 10 Foes of Frodo 14 _ _ _ colada 15 Best 16 The Big Easy 17 Mail opening 18 Brunch offering 19 Subj. that includes the study of bubbles? 20 Eat, quaintly 22 Fatty, as tissue 24 Old T-shirt, maybe 25 Complains, donkey-style 28 Confronts reality 29 Modern _ _ _ 30 They line the Champs-Élysées 31 Finish, as a cake 32 “That’s a bad idea!” 34 “That __ Then, This Is Now” (1971 S. E. Hinton novel) 35 Solution to some chemistry problems? 36 Start of a reminiscence 37 Cynthia who played Harriet Tubman in 2019’s “Harriet” 39 Longtime CBS drama

43 Where to find “Fresh Air” 45 Identity prefix 46 Wildly outlandish story 47 Range maker 50 Frenzied 52 Alternative to a boot 53 Lawn equipment with an engine 54 Hole ___ 55 Rite Aid rival 56 Like some questions that will never be answered 58 Be in direct competition 60 Bergdorf competitor 61 Saguaros, e.g. 64 They may be split or loose 66 Frozen treat 67 Words mouthed to a TV camera 68 Make amends? 69 Frozen treat 70 Give an address 71 D.C. address?

DOWN

1 Air Force Two riders 2 Crude industrialist? 3 Not derived from living matter 4 “It’s a ___!’” 5 Place where everything should have a mate

6 Couple’s word 7 Tribe for which a state is named 8 Reason for an end zone celebration, for short 9 Did some gardening 10 Like some families 11 Ornate 12 Places to hang hangers 13 Most reasonable 21 “Shark Tank” airer 23 Highly debatable 24 Give a makeover 26 A ways away 27 Confident assertion 33 Home of Dollywood 35 Moving too slowly, say

38 Prosecco o Chianti 40 Item of feline furniture 41 “Five stars!” 42 Oodles 44 Part of PRNDL 47 College-level H.S. class with scales and intervals 48 Formula 1 locale 49 Rouse 50 Where a trapeze artist performs 51 Co. big 57 Device with Alexa 59 Tiny pedestals, of a sort 62 Nashville awards org. 63 Little one 65 Apt name for a goulash chef